AN – Hey guys! Thank you all so much for the reviews of the last chapter – I'm so pleased that you all seem to be enjoying the story as much as I enjoy writing it! I also just wanted to say thanks to those of you that reviewed who don't have an account and so I couldn't say thanks personally, (Irene, Maria and Shelley), thanks so much for taking the time to leave a review.

So the weather was still snowy here at the end of last week (when I started writing this chapter!) and I've really had enough of it, definitely ready for some sunshine! My fiancé also crashed my car into the back of someone else on Thursday last week – luckily not much damage done, just a bang on the fog light, but I was still very pissed off at him, after me telling him to stick to main roads he decides to go down a hilly country road and then skids on some ice. I was not impressed but then again, when do men ever listen to women huh, so I guess I wasn't surprised!!!

Anyway, it was his birthday Friday so I couldn't be mad at him for long... and we got him a new sports car on Saturday so at least now he doesn't need to drive mine around anymore which should save it from any future crashes!!

So on with this story... I bet those of you that read Kiss the Rain too weren't expecting an update so soon from me – but I thought it would be something for the weekend to celebrate Valentines Day! I hope you all have fun! ;o) And I hope you all like the update, how do you think Tom will react to Haley standing him up in the last chapter..? I also just wanted to say that the reveal chapter is coming up soon so not long to wait now!

Oh and I just want to reiterate that this is an M rated fic so read with caution! x

Chapter Seven

Haley climbed into the waiting car Nathan had called for her the following morning. He had wanted her to spend the day with him, but she didn't want to be a hindrance to his plans, and so decided to go home and made up some excuse, something about lunch plans with a friend so she couldn't stay with him. She sighed as the car pulled away from the hotel and headed towards her penthouse apartment. She could feel the guilt come on in shed loads as she thought back to last night and how she had stood Tom up right at the last minute, after he had booked the impossible to find tickets to the show she had desperately wanted to see. How ungrateful she had been, how un-Haley like her decision to spend the night with Nathan instead of Tom had been. Not that she had been really surprised at her decision; she hadn't acted like herself for a while now. But despite knowing what she was doing to Tom was wrong and incredibly hurtful, she couldn't feel one hundred percent bad about the choices she had been making lately, not when those kind of decisions lead to feeling the way Nathan had made her feel last night, which was absolutely incredible, a pleasure which was beyond what she had thought had existed. Sex with Nathan seemed to get better and better each time they met up, it was like he was tuned into her frequency, he knew all the right buttons to press, he knew how to turn her on.

She looked over at her bag which she had placed on the seat next to her, and could already hear her mobile phone calling to her, taunting her, just daring her to look at it. She knew Tom would be angry, she expected there to be a thousand missed calls and some incredibly irate messages from him, that was the way he was, she knew he didn't like to be messed around and after the phone call he had made to her while Nathan was licking and kissing her down there, well, she couldn't even remember what the hell she had said to Tom, and her mind hadn't even been preoccupied, in that moment, she couldn't think of anything but the shivers of pleasure that were running through her entire body. But she couldn't be bothered to deal with that at the moment, the listening to phone calls could wait until she had reached the penthouse, instead she was more than content to bask in the afterglow of yet another incredible night with Nathan.

After what seemed like far too little time, Haley felt the car slow down to a halt. She shook her head of her daydreams and thanked the driver as she stepped out of the car and into her building. Once inside the penthouse, she threw her bag on the coffee table in the lounge and flopped down on the sofa, letting out a huge sigh. She was putting off listening to the messages, finding things to occupy her thoughts, flicking through last week's TV guide, eyeing the walls for cobwebs that she needed to clean, mentally listing the chores she needed to complete, wash her clothes, go food shopping, tidy her closet, searching for something, anything, to distract her time. However, she soon ran out of things to put on her 'I need to do that' list, and knew she had to deal with Tom, he was probably freaking out now that a full night had passed by and she still hadn't contacted him.

She forced herself up from her floppy state on the sofa and leaned over to the coffee table, grabbing her bag, searching for her phone which was somewhere inside of it. She pulled it out and turned it on, wincing as she waited for the stupid thing to get started so she could get this over and done with. She saw the first missed call come through, together with the voicemail which had been left along with the call. She held her phone up in the air, leaning towards the window, hoping that it would help her mobile get some better reception which would speed this process up. After a minute had passed, she pulled her phone back towards her and looked at the screen, confused as there was still only one missed call and one voicemail on it, which couldn't be right as there was no way Tom would only leave one message, the stupid phone obviously wasn't finished doing whatever it did to get these calls and messages through yet. Frustrated at how long this was taking, she decided to leave the phone for a while and make herself a coffee; it had to be done by the time she had finished making her drink.

With her coffee in her hands, Haley walked slowly back in the lounge, sure that by now her phone would be inundated with missed calls and voicemails. She took a sip of her drink and then placed it on the coffee table, picking up her phone, pressing some keys to bring it back to life, still finding herself surprised at the fact that there was only one missed call and one voicemail listed on it. That could only mean one thing, that Tom had called literally a thousand times and her phone just couldn't cope with the volume of calls, so they had been ignored. It was the only valid reason she could come up with which would mean that Tom had only called her once. She braced herself as she dialled her voicemail number, wondering which voicemail had slipped through the net, would it be the one that was at the start of the night, when perhaps he would have been worried about her, or would it have been one towards the end of the night, when he was sure to be incredibly pissed.

"Haley it's me, what the hell are you doing and why aren't you here? And what the fuck was that, why did you just hang up on me without an explanation? Call me back as soon as you get this. I need to talk to you."

He was pissed. He was doing his whole, I want you to know that I'm pissed but I am a little bit worried about you so call me thing. Haley sighed, knowing that she owed Tom a call back; it would be too rude of her to do what she was doing with Nathan and completely ignore Tom, to not apologise for missing the night he had planned for them both would be too cruel. She scrolled down to his number and hit the call button, trying to disguise the guilt in her voice, praying that he hadn't guessed what she had really been doing last night.

"Haley." Tom said when he picked up his phone. "Why the hell are you only calling me back now? I left that message last night for fucks sake, what the fuck have you been doing all night?"

Shit. Haley thought to herself, some major damage control was needed. She felt so guilty that he had been worrying about her the whole night while she had been having some of the best sex of her life. That was wrong, so very, very wrong. "Tom, I don't know what to say, I got caught up with work so I didn't leave on time and then the traffic was really bad so there was no way I was going to make it on time. So I just went home and forgot to call you to let you know. I'm sorry." Haley did her best at lying, trying to keep it simple and believable; not trying to add too many details to her story, hoping that he would buy it.

"Well that's just not good enough Haley. I had a whole evening planned and you couldn't even be fucked to turn up. That's the last time I ever try to do anything special for you again, seeing as you are that ungrateful." Tom shouted, loosing his cool, not one hundred percent sure if he believed what Haley had just told him, when he had spoken to her last night, she hadn't sounded like she was at home, she had just sounded… weird.

"Tom, I'm not ungrateful, what you did, getting those tickets for us was really sweet of you and I really appreciate what you did for me." Haley tried to explain, that part of what she was saying was true, she had been totally surprised when she had received the tickets, it was so unlike Tom to do something like that for her and she really was grateful to him for arranging something like that for them both to do and she now felt really bad at how upset he was getting over the whole thing, she was actually beginning to feel sick almost.

"Whatever Haley." Tom scoffed. "How can you say those things and then not even have the decency to turn up, let alone call me to let me know that you weren't even going to show, what the hell is with that?"

Haley was starting to get pissed at his attitude. She knew partly it was her wanting to find reasoning for her own actions, wanting to make excuses for her own behaviour, behaviour which she knew had been so out of line, so wrong and so rude, but the guilt was eating away at her, and she needed to make herself feel better before she was sick, and the only way she could think to do that was lash out at Tom, accuse him of precisely the same thing he was accusing her of. "Well what about all the times that you have done that to me Tom? Last night was the first fucking time that I haven't turned up to something that you had planned. But what about that time a couple of months ago when I arranged the weekend away for us, that you so curtly cancelled right at the last minute, but forgot to tell me? What about last year when I waited all night for you to come around to my house on your birthday after I had slaved all day, trying to cook a special meal for you, but you never showed? What about the time when I bought my parents into town to see you but you fucking stood us all up?" Haley shouted back.

"Fuck you Haley. Don't try to twist this around to make yourself feel better." Tom snapped at her, wanting to cut in to stop the oncoming tirade of accusations she was sure to be flinging his way.

"Well don't you fucking act like you're some Saint or something because you planned one special evening that I couldn't get to. That is bullshit Tom." Haley growled at him, she wasn't going to let him make her feel bad about standing him up, she already felt like crap given that she was sleeping with someone else behind his back, she didn't need anything else to be added to that weight on her shoulders, especially when standing her up was something that he did regularly.

"I am not acting like I'm a Saint, Haley, I'm just pissed because it took a lot of time for me to get those tickets, it's not like they were just giving them away. That show that you supposedly really wanted to see is sold out until next year." Tom roared back, wanting Haley to understand that this had not just been a case of make a phone call, book a restaurant and hey-ho, there they were, planning that evening had taken time and she didn't seem to give a shit.

"And you don't think that cooking dinner for you, planning a weekend away, getting me and my parents into town took time?" Haley screeched. He was so unbelievably pigheaded. This was classic Tom right here, only thinking of himself, not thinking of the implications of his actions on anybody but himself.

"I never said that Haley. I just want you to understand that it wasn't easy planning last night." Tom said through gritted teeth, not liking the fact that Haley was trying to shaft the spotlight back onto him. She had done wrong, not him. This was about her actions, not his.

"Well I can tell you this, nothing with you is ever easy, Tom." Haley said half laughing, half shouting still, shaking her head at him even though she knew he couldn't see her.

"And what the fuck is that supposed to mean?" Tom barked down the phone at her, not believing that she had yet again managed to deflect this argument back onto him.

Haley was pissed beyond belief. She was so angry she was shaking, she could feel her phone wobbling at her ear and she could tell that her voice was about to properly crack, but she didn't care, she needed to shout, vent some of her anger and frustrations that she had been bottling inside ever since he had started messing her around, not caring that she had done the same to him last night. "Well I've just let you practically walk all over me Tom. Right from the beginning so it's no wonder that you think you can act the way you do. Cancel plans here; cancel plans there. Well I've fucking had enough of it, no more. Now you know what it feels like when all your efforts go to waste." Haley screamed.

Tom took a deep breath, desperately trying to calm himself down; although he knew that a deep breath was not going to help him now. "So last night was what Haley? You giving me a taste of my own medicine? You getting your own back on me?" He demanded to know what the hell she had been playing at.

Haley sighed loudly. She was tired of her screaming match now, tired of Tom and the way he had been treating her and tired of the guilt that constantly tortured her. "I don't know what it was." Haley answered honestly, quietly.

"Well you'd better fucking work out what it was soon Haley and don't you dare try to do that to me again." Tom snapped at her. He knew what she was doing, she was tired of talking, but he wasn't ready to give up this fight. He wasn't going to let her get away with standing him up that easily.

"Fuck you." Haley snapped. "You can call me back when you calm down enough to talk to me reasonably and not make such ridiculous demands. I will do what I fucking want Tom."

"You'll be waiting a long time for that phone call Haley." Tom shouted down the phone just before Haley hung up and threw her phone as hard as she could across the room, watching as the back fell off and the battery went flying across the floor.

~*~

Nathan had just finished getting himself ready for the day. He hated the fact that Haley had to leave but he couldn't really blame her, she had a life away from him, he had known that when they had decided to take their friendship to the next level so it was pointless moping about it, he had gotten himself into this situation and he was going to have to deal with the consequences of it. He often wondered how Haley saw him, what on earth she thought he was to her. He knew she had to have some sort of feelings for him, he didn't think she was the kind of person who would just have an affair for the sake of it, in fact, he knew she wasn't like that at all. He couldn't help the smile that spread across his face at knowing that she had some level of feelings for him. She was perfect for him, and he could only hope that those feelings would develop over time and eventually she would realise that he meant more to her than the boyfriend did. He chuckled to himself at the thought of her boyfriend, remembering what he had been doing to his girlfriend while he had been on the phone to her last night. If the boyfriend didn't know what was going on then it was clear to him that he had never got Haley that turned on before, and for that he felt almost sorry for the bastard, Haley's breathless moaning and screaming was something that Nathan was sure he couldn't live without, in fact, just thinking about the way she screamed his name had him growing hard.

He lay back on the bed and looked around him, seeing the boring four walls of the hotel suite that almost seemed like home to him now. He thought about how stupid it was given the fact that he had a penthouse apartment just a few minutes away that he couldn't even use because his idiot of a brother hadn't told his secretary that he owned it and it was far too much effort at the moment to use his out of town house, especially when he wanted to be nearby in case Haley ever called him, he knew he would literally kick himself if he had to miss an opportunity to be with her because he wasn't close enough to her. He was getting a little pissed off at the fact that he was spending all his time in hotel rooms too for it would be so much easier for him to see Haley more often if he didn't need to make sure he could book a room first. He made a mental note to call Lucas this week and sort this out, Lucas had had more than enough time to tell the woman now, and it was just getting ridiculous.

He glanced down at the clock on the bedside table and saw that the shops would be open now. He wished Haley could have come with him but she had lunch plans with a friend which meant she needed to get home. He decided he wanted to get her something special, something to show her how much she meant to him, even if she wasn't completely his yet. He wanted her to know that he wanted to be her everything.

~*~

It was Wednesday and Haley hadn't heard from Tom since Saturday morning when they had had that huge argument. She sighed to herself as she looked at her phone for what had to be the hundredth time already that morning, wishing that it would just ring and put her out of her misery. It seemed like this was some sort of routine for her and Tom, either one of them pissed the other off and then they both wasted time not talking, because they both had too much pride to give in. She shook her head at how stupid she was being, she knew how stubborn Tom was, and remembered his parting words to her call to him on Saturday, "You'll be waiting a long time for that phone call Haley." She knew that he meant that too. She sighed loudly again, just in time for Peyton to hear as she walked over to Haley's desk.

Peyton looked at Haley, seeing her staring at her phone. She picked it up and looked at it. "You think it's broken?" Peyton said with a raised eyebrow, looking at the sticky tape that was holding the back off her phone together.

Haley grabbed the phone out of Peyton's grasp. "It is not broken." Haley snapped as she placed her phone on the other side of her body, away from Peyton.

"Well it might be, what the hell did you do to it?" Peyton asked, laughing at the scowl Haley sent her way.

"I kind of threw it across the apartment." Haley admitted, shaking her head at her actions.

"Why did you do that?" Peyton enquired, already thinking that she knew the answer, given the constant stream of sighs that she had been hearing coming from Haley since the start of the working week.

Haley turned to face Peyton, and raised her eyebrow at her. "Do you even need to ask?" Haley said with another sigh.

"Thought as much." Peyton said, nodding her head to show Haley that she knew exactly what the problem was. "Come on." She said, grabbing Haley by the arm and pulling her out of her seat. "We're going to get some lunch."

Five minutes later, Haley found herself sitting in a restaurant with Peyton. They had walked far enough away from the office so that they could chat in private, grateful to the waiter who had seated them in the corner so extra privacy could be had. They had a lot to talk about. Haley wasn't entirely sure how much she should tell Peyton, as far as she remembered, Peyton knew that she had kissed Nathan, but she didn't know anymore than that. She didn't know if Peyton would understand what she was doing with Nathan; she didn't know if Peyton would understand how Nathan made her feel. She didn't know whose side Peyton was going to be on in this mini war. And part of her was intrigued to find out.

Once the waiter had taken their order, Peyton watched him walk away and as soon as he was out of ear shot, she turned her attention to Haley. "So what has Tom done now?" She asked accusingly, knowing that Haley's mood had to be to do with him and something he had done, it usually did.

Haley sighed and started to explain the situation to Peyton. "He got me tickets to see that show that I wanted to see on Friday and I sort of didn't turn up and didn't call him to explain why so we had a huge fight about it on Saturday and I haven't spoken to him since."

"Oh." Peyton said surprised. That wasn't what she had been expecting; she had been expecting this to be about something Tom did, not Haley, and from what Haley had just said, it seemed only right that Tom be pissed at her, she didn't get why Haley wouldn't just apologise herself so that they could move past it. "Why didn't you turn up?"

Haley looked down at the table and bit down on her lip, still unsure of what to say, whether to tell Peyton what was going on with her and Nathan, was she really ready to admit that she was having an affair with someone? At least if she kept it to herself, she could ignore it, push those thoughts out of her mind, pretend that she wasn't doing that to Tom. But once she said the words out loud, to anyone, it would make it all real, it would make her be seen as such a horrible person, she didn't know if she could cope with it. However, there was a part of her that wanted to tell someone about it, wanted to get it out in the open so that she was forced to deal with it, forced to recognise what she was doing was wrong and hopefully help her resolve it. "I was with sleeping with someone else." Haley admitted so quietly she wasn't sure herself if those words had actually come out of her mouth.

"What?" Peyton screamed, not believing that Haley had just said what she had. Sure she knew about the kiss she had shared with the coffee shop man, but now she was sleeping with someone? Was it the coffee shop man or was it someone else? What the hell had happened?

"Shut up will you?" Haley said as she snapped her head up from the table that she had suddenly found incredibly interesting and glared at Peyton, finding herself annoyed at how loud she was being. Sure she had expected her to be surprised but the whole restaurant didn't need to know that Haley was revealing a big secret.

"Sorry Haley, I'm just, I don't know, I'm just surprised I guess." Peyton said at a more acceptable volume, trying to run through reasons for having an affair in her mind, trying to find an excuse that would make Haley think that this was an okay thing to be doing, trying to see it from her point of view. Sure Tom was an ass, but did she really need to be cheating on him? Was that fair? She didn't know if she was being honest to herself, she had never had a shit for a fiancé.

Haley looked back down at the table and started playing with her hands; she didn't know what else to say. She had admitted it, and she was waiting for that weight that had been pressing so hard on her shoulders to lift even the slightest bit, but it didn't, if anything it just felt like another tonne had been added on top of the already excruciating weight that was already there. She started playing with her engagement ring, turning it around in a circle on her finger, trying to distract herself.

Peyton eyed Haley suspiciously, looking at her face with great intent, trying to work out what she was thinking, a million thoughts racing through her own head. "Is it the coffee shop guy?" Peyton asked, sure that it was but she still wanted confirmation.

Haley's head snapped up and she glared at Peyton again. "Yes it's the coffee shop guy. God, did you even need to ask? What, you think that I've got this string of men that I'm working my way through?" Haley said while shaking her head. She knew it, she knew that by admitting this Peyton's judgement of her would change, and apparently now she was just a slut.

"Haley I didn't mean it like that, I thought it was him but I just wanted to make sure." Peyton said while trying to defend her question.

Haley sighed, realising she was getting angry over nothing, she already had enough on her plate and she didn't want to piss Peyton off, not when she was just trying to be a friend. "I'm sorry Peyton; I didn't mean to jump down your throat." Haley apologised.

"It's alright Haley." Peyton replied, instantly accepting Haley's apology. Now that Haley had told her what was really wrong, Peyton could see through the mask that Haley had been wearing, trying to disguise what she was really feeling, disguising what was going on. She noticed how tired she looked, how stressed out she looked. "Haley are you sure you're okay, how are you feeling?" Peyton asked, concern pouring out with her words.

Haley didn't know how she felt. Confused was a big possibility, but she wasn't even sure if that was how she was feeling, and as for being okay, well she already knew the answer to that one. A big, fat, resounding no. She could feel the tears welling in her eyes, and she couldn't believe that she was crying about it. She didn't even know who she was crying for, why she was crying. She had told herself that she wouldn't cry, she wouldn't let this get to her. She tried to control the tears; she didn't want any of them to fall.

"Haley." Peyton said softly as she reached out and grabbed her hands which were still laying on the table, taking them in hers. "It's okay Haley." She could see how torn up she was about all of this, and as far as Peyton was concerned, all Haley needed was a fried, and she was going to be just that.

"How is this okay?" Haley chocked out as one tear betrayed her and fell from her eyes. She pulled one of her hands out of Peyton's grasp and quickly wiped it away, closing her eyes to try to stop anymore from falling.

Peyton took a deep breath. "Well Friday night was the first time you slept with him right? Have you kissed him more than the time you told me about?" Peyton asked, trying to find the positives in the situation. Haley could just stop what hadn't really started with the coffee shop man and go on as normal, surely that was something.

Haley bowed her head and blew out a long breath. So Peyton thought this whole thing with Nathan was new? "Peyton Friday wasn't the first time I slept with him." Haley admitted. She may as well come completely clean, what was the point in half truths anyway? It wouldn't matter if it had been once or a thousand times, it would still be wrong, each and every time.

"Oh." Peyton said, shocked that this seemed to have been going on for a while. "Well…" Peyton started, trying to think of something to say, but she couldn't. "Erm, well does he know about Tom?" She asked.

"He knows I have a boyfriend." Haley answered the question, looking up into Peyton's eyes, wondering if she would spot the difference.

"Ah." Peyton said, nodding her head. "Boyfriend not Fiancé."

"Yep." Haley answered in a subdued manner. How the hell had she managed to get herself in this mess? How the hell was she going to get herself out of it? It was a complete dead end.

"Wow… okay." Peyton started. "Well, it's obvious that you have feelings for the coffee shop man isn't it?"

Haley's head snapped up again. "What? I don't have feelings for him." Haley answered back far too quickly, defending herself from something that she couldn't quite put her finger on; she couldn't have feelings for Nathan, that was impossible and how had Peyton deduced that from what she had told her?

"Oh come on Haley. The one person you need to be honest with is yourself. Why do you keep going back for more? You can't tell me that this thing with the coffee shop boy is just about sex, I can see it in your eyes, you're torn."

"No I am not!" Haley nearly shouted back. "I am not torn at all." She said again, more quietly, trying to make Peyton see that there really was no decision to be made, no lies were being told. "I'm engaged to Tom."

"And sleeping with the coffee shop man, not Tom." Peyton reiterated the summary of the whole situation back to Haley. "Why do you need the coffee shop man when you've got Tom?"

"I don't need the coffee shop man and it is just about sex, believe me." Haley said as she sat back in her chair and folded her arms, letting Peyton know that this conversation was closed. Haley glared at Peyton who had a look of smugness on her face and Haley was just grateful for the fact that Peyton couldn't hear that betraying little voice in the back of her head telling her that Nathan meant something to her.

~*~

Nathan sat back in his chair in his office, glancing down at the clock on his computer, seeing that it was half six. He'd had enough of work for the moment; anything else that he was going to get done before he had planned to leave could wait until he'd had a bit of a break. He looked down his To Do list, running his finger over every item that was on it, seeing if there was anything the required his attention urgently; when he came across the phone call he needed to make to Lucas. He picked up his phone and dialled his work number, hoping that he was still in the office, smiling when he heard him pick up.

"Luke, it's me." Nathan said once Lucas had picked up and answered the call.

"Oh hey Nate, how's it going?" He asked.

"Fine, you?" Nathan asked back.

"Good, what can I do for you?" Lucas asked.

Nathan smiled to himself, knowing fore well that Lucas wouldn't have done it yet, he also knew that he would never do it unless it was forced on him. "Have you told the secretary yet?"

Lucas coughed when he heard what Nathan was asking him. "Oh, erm, no I haven't got round to that yet." Lucas answered honestly.

"Luke!" Nathan sighed. "Why not?"

"It just hasn't been the right time!" Lucas tried to defend himself.

"Well I'm getting pissed off at having to sleep in hotel rooms so you're going to have to tell her soon." Nathan said hotly, wanting to force the urgency of the issue onto Lucas so he would get a fucking move on with this.

Lucas rolled his eyes at his brother's theatrics. "Well I'm sure you haven't been using hotel rooms that often Nathan, no need to be so damn dramatic about it." He returned to his brother.

"I'll have you know that I have been using hotel rooms much more regularly than I used to." Nathan said slyly, knowing that Lucas would pick up the tone of his voice instantly.

"No!" Lucas gasped down the phone, wondering if this was the coffee shop girl or someone new. "Nathan Scott has found himself a woman? Who is she?" Lucas asked.

"A true gentleman never kisses and tells!" Nathan laughed at Lucas' reaction before getting serious again. "So I need you to tell this secretary by the end of next week otherwise I'll just start using the apartment without you having said anything okay?"

"Alright, alright." Lucas dismissed his demand, wanting to get back to the subject of the mystery woman. "So who is she?" He asked.

Nathan laughed again, and then heard his phone ringing, picking it up and seeing that it was Haley calling him. "I've got to go, other line, talk soon Luke." Nathan said as he hung up the phone and picked up his mobile.

~*~

Haley hadn't been able to concentrate all afternoon. She knew she shouldn't have said anything to Peyton; she was now more confused now than she had been before she had opened her stupid, big mouth. She can't have feelings for Nathan, she kept telling herself, growing increasingly impatient and pissed off at that stupid voice that kept coming back to her every single time she thought about it. "Yes you do." It would return, just like it had done right now. She slammed her pen down on her desk and looked at the clock. It was six thirty-five, and she needed to get out of here. She needed to prove to herself that this thing with Nathan really was just about sex. "You don't think it is huh?" She mumbled out loud to herself as she picked up her mobile and scrolled down to his number, pressing the call button once she had reached it. "Well I'll just fucking show you that it is." She waited patiently for him to answer, smiling at the sound of his voice when he picked up.

"Hey beautiful." Nathan said huskily, almost as a low whisper as he picked up his mobile, pleased to find Haley calling him for what he hoped would be a meet up, the morning coffees were definitely a bonus but the evenings were just so much better.

He always sounded so fucking sexy, especially when he was whispering in that tone in her ear, she could see the lust and passion burning in his incredible eyes, burning so brightly just for her. "See." The voice said to her as her mind started wandering. She shook herself from her dirty thoughts and cleared her throat, trying to go into her businesslike mode. "Hi, are you free, I need to see you." Haley said, raising her eyebrow at the tone of her voice, she didn't sound businesslike at all, she sounded turned on. God help me, she thought to herself.

Nathan chuckled and breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that in just a couple of minutes he would be able to see her again. He missed her like crazy during the day, and the nights he spent away from her seemed to drag on for an eternity, most of the time he had a little countdown going in his head until he could see her again in the morning, which was so pathetic. "Sure, I was going to head home but I can get us the normal hotel suite hopefully, I'll head down there now and if I can't get the usual room I'll text you the new number okay?" Nathan said as he started switching off his computer, too impatient to wait for it to shut down on its own and so pressed the button, holding it down for the ten seconds it needed, switching the screen off and putting on his suit jacket, already headed out of the door before she had even answered him.

"Okay, I'll see you in fifteen minutes." Haley said as she hung up her phone, turning her own computer off and grabbing her bag, placing her engagement ring inside of her purse before heading out of the door to hail a cab.

~*~

Haley had been sitting in the cab for the last ten minutes, coaching herself to be good, to talk to him, to prove to that stupid voice in her head that wouldn't shut up that she could control herself around Nathan, that what they were doing meant nothing. That she really was just with him for sex. She realised that using Nathan for sex made her a horrible person, a slut essentially, but the alternative just didn't bare thinking about.

The cab pulled up outside the hotel that she had been so used to coming in and out of now that it felt so familiar, nice almost, and she could already feel her body start to get heated, it was like it could sense where it was, knowing that it was about to enjoy some of the most fantastic pleasure imaginable, that Haley was sure it was a sin just to be thinking of it. But she couldn't deny her body reacting the way it was, that would be one battle that just wasn't worth the energy in fighting. She stepped out of the cab and checked her phone before she walked inside, to check whether Nathan had text her about a room change, seeing that no text had been received and so she made her way into the lobby towards the elevators. She pressed the button that would take her to the top floor and waited patiently for the elevator to take her to her destination, all the while telling herself that she was just here to talk, to explain to Nathan what was going on.

She walked down the corridor to the suite that had become her and Nathan's little haven, their own little place in the world, where she could just loose herself in him. She quickly pushed those thoughts back out of her head though before that annoying voice could come back to taunt her. She eventually reached the suite and knocked on the door and waited for Nathan to answer it.

Nathan walked quickly to the door and opened it just as fast, smiling at Haley as his eyes swept appreciatively over her body. She was dressed in a tight fitting black dress which went down to her knees and had teamed it with some high heels, her hair was held up with a clip and to Nathan, she really was the most beautiful, the sexiest girl in the world. "Hey you." He said with a grin when his eyes landed back on her face.

Haley looked back into those amazing eyes and found herself completely hypnotised by him. How he had such a hold over her, how he caused her to turn to complete and utter mush was just something that would remain one of life's great mysteries. She could already feel her legs turning to jelly as her own eyes swept down his face to his lips which she longed to kiss. She forced her gaze down his body, he was dressed in a black suit with a blue shirt and tie, and she could see the outline of his arm muscles as he leant against the door, which just had her wanting to rip his clothes off him and take him there in the corridor. She managed to push her gaze back up his body, finding his lips again, subconsciously sweeping her tongue over her own lips as her eyes locked with his again. She couldn't remember the reasons why she had come here; all she could think about was the need to have him… now.

She held out her hand and pushed Nathan back into the room, closing the door behind her with her foot and then grabbed a fist full of his shirt, pulling him back towards her as her lips connected hungrily with his. She forced her tongue into his mouth, not bothering to wait for his mouth to open, she was far too impatient, and she smiled against his lips when she heard a moan escaping from his lips when her tongue found his. Her hands had snaked their way around his neck and her fingers were already tangled in his hair, pushing his lips harder onto hers, wanting to deepen this kiss as much as was possible.

Nathan didn't even have time to think, that was how quick her attack on him had been, and he wasn't even sure what he needed to be thinking about anyway, he was far too lost in what her tongue was doing to his, at what her hands were doing in his hair and at how amazing the feel of her breasts rubbing up and down his chest felt. His own hands were rubbing along her back, holding her closer to him.

Haley's lips disconnected from Nathan's, she needed to catch a breath but that didn't stop her mouth moving hotly over his skin, down his jaw to his neck. She let her tongue lick its way further down his neck, until she nearly reached the collar of his shirt and so ended her trail with a hot, wet kiss, before licking along his skin to just below his ear where she sucked down on his neck, her hands moving from his hair down his chest, removing his suit jacket from him before bringing her hands back around to his chest, until she started playing with his tie.

Nathan leaned his head back, allowing Haley all the access she needed to continue what she was doing. He didn't care if he ended up with a hickey the size of a small country, it was worth it when her mouth felt this good, the way her tongue was moving across his skin reminded him of the way her tongue had played with the tip of his cock last Friday, before her mouth moved all the way down his long, hard length. "Shit, Haley." Nathan moaned as he felt her begin to walk them both further into the room, her mouth still attached to his neck as they turned the corner and went into the bedroom, feeling Haley reach her hands up to undo his tie, and then she pushed him down on the bed.

Haley knew she was acting like a sex crazed animal, but she didn't care, she needed Nathan, and now that she had his tie in her hands, she could make things a little more interesting. She grinned mysteriously at him as she climbed onto the bed next to him, crawling up it with the tie still in her hands, until she reached the pillows and looped the tie around the bed pole. "Hands." Haley demanded as she held her own open for Nathan to place his in, which he did with a raised eyebrow and an incredibly sexy look on his face. Haley grinned back at his just as sexily as she tied his hands together above his head, making sure that his tie was strong enough to hold his arms in place.

Once Haley was satisfied that she had tied his hands up strongly enough she crawled back down the bed until she got to Nathan's waist, holding his gaze with hers as she hitched her dress up her thighs so that she could straddle him. She leaned down so she was just hovering about his lips, she could feel his breath on her face, and it was almost her undoing but she managed to regain her control, just as Nathan struggled underneath her and tried to lean up so that he could kiss her, but she was too quick for him.

"Hales." Nathan groaned out in frustration, although the whole tying him up was sexy, he knew he was going to get annoyed that he couldn't touch her very quickly.

Haley just smiled sexily at him as she held his gaze, leaning back down to his neck, licking her way down until she reached his collar, her hands moving to start undoing his buttons on his shirt, kissing every inch of his skin that was exposed by her actions until she got to his trousers, her hands making quick work of undoing his belt and the buttons on them, before pulling them off his body. She kissed her way back up his leg, looking up and seeing his erection straining through his tight boxers, feeling herself getting wetter from the thought of what was waiting for her.

Nathan felt her kisses move to his stomach again, flinching slightly from the light way her mouth was tickling him, moaning as she moved further up his chest, her hands just above where her head was, now pulling his shirt from his shoulders, exposing more skin than before. Her mouth moved again to his cheek, peppering kisses all over his face, anywhere but his lips. He was getting increasingly agitated, he wanted to taste her again but she was making it near impossible. He waited patiently for his chance to kiss her lips, spotting an opportunity as she tried to move to the other side of his face, his mouth reaching out to capture her lips with his.

Haley moaned when she felt Nathan's tongue barge into her mouth, and she knew she was powerless to stop her mouth from kissing him back. Her mouth moved hotly over his as she pushed him back down into the mattress until she remembered that she was the one with all of the control, and so pulled away slightly from his kiss, sucking on his bottom lip before biting down on it.

Nathan opened his eyes when he felt her move off him, wondering where she was going. He moaned when he saw her move off the bed but then quickly shut up when he saw her hand reach to the back of her dress, pulling down the zipper and wiggling out of it, exposing her lacy, black underwear. Fuck was she hot. He thought to himself as his eyes wandered hungrily over every inch of her, taking in her every curve, his eyes following each and every one of her body's contours, before resting on her eyes, which were calling to him, she looked so damn sexy.

Haley smiled as she crawled back onto the bed; it was so much easier to move without her dress ridden up to her waist. She lowered herself down onto his boxers, grinding her body into him, smiling at the moans she was eliciting from Nathan's mouth due to her actions. His eyes stayed locked on hers until Haley moved her hands to behind her back to unclasp her bra, loosening the material on her, but not taking it off. She reached her hands down to Nathan's bare chest and ran her fingernails up and down it licking her lips as her gaze caught Nathan's again.

Is she trying to kill me? Nathan thought to himself as he looked into her eyes, wanting to see if there was any truth to his thoughts. Why the hell hasn't she taken the damn bra off? He thought. He could see how loose the thing was on her, and he couldn't take it anymore, he wanted, he needed to see her breasts. "Take it off." He commanded.

Haley smiled and did as he asked, pulling the bra off her body, exposing her breasts to him, throwing it onto the floor.

"Fuck Haley, you're so beautiful." Nathan said as he stared at her in pure wonderment, his eyes running up and down her body again.

"So are you baby." Haley said as she placed a kiss on his chest and moved her body off him, peeling her black panties off her body and throwing them onto the floor too, before crawling back onto him.

Nathan growled when he felt her bare centre grind into him this time, he could feel some of her wetness on his boxers, his cock straining through the bastard material to get through to her. He started wiggling around underneath her, wanting to press his body into her more than she was doing, but it was useless, every time he leaned up, she would lean further away from him. "Damn it Haley." Nathan mumbled as he looked into her eyes, pleading with her to untie him, even though he knew it would do no good.

Haley shook her head as she looked back at Nathan, dropping her gaze to her breasts as her hands moved slowly up her stomach.

Nathan instantly dropped his gaze when Haley did, wondering what she was looking at. His eyes grew wide as he watched her hands move at a torturous pace up her stomach, travelling ever so slowly towards her breasts. He waited for her hands to reach them, watching in surprise as both her hands crept over her breasts as she started massaging them. "Haley." Nathan moaned huskily, he longed to touch her, he needed to touch her, but she just ignored him.

Haley moved her hands so that she could start playing with her hardened nipples, not forgetting to grind down into Nathan's hard cock as she did so, taking each nipple between her thumb and finger, and rubbing them together, before moving her right hand back down her body.

Nathan didn't know where to look, on the one hand, he wanted to continue watching what her left hand was doing to her breast, but he found that his eyes were watching the other hand that was travelling back down her body, he didn't know where the hell that one was going, he was curious. He watched as it went lower and lower, until she lifted herself off him slightly, and then pressed her middle finger down into her folds, Nathan watching with ever widening eyes as her finger slid down her slit and then back up again, resting on her clit, moving it around in a small circle, a light moan escaping from her mouth. "Haley." He tired again, trying desperately to get her attention, but she continued her actions again as if she hadn't heard him, her fingers moving back down her slit until she slid two of them inside of her. This time, Nathan groaned out loud. He knew what that felt like, it was fucking amazing and he was actually jealous of her fingers, he wanted his inside of her, he wanted his cock to be inside of her.

Haley heard him groan as she entered herself, a small smile playing on her lips. She loved how worked up he was getting, knowing that she was going to reap the benefits as soon as she was ready to untie him, which would have to be soon, she couldn't take his hands not being on her for much longer. She knew exactly what she wanted to do, just to drive him that little bit more crazy, and so she moved her fingers in and out of herself a couple more times, coating them with her juices, before pulling her fingers out, bringing them slowly up to her mouth, and licking them with her tongue.

Nathan had had enough; he was going to rip the tie if she didn't untie him right this second, either that or break the bed pole. "Haley, untie me now." He said huskily, watching as her tongue continued to lick her fingers clean, moaning again knowing exactly what that tasted like.

Haley licked her lips once she had finished with her fingers and then reached up to untie his hands; the second they were free Nathan grabbed her waist and flipped them around so that he was on top of her, she screamed a little in the process, being taken by surprise, giggling at how irritated he was getting with his boxers that he was trying to get off his body while trying to shake his shirt off at the same time.

"Oh you think that's funny do you?" Nathan asked once he had managed to shake his clothes off his body, grabbing her waist again as he leant on his knees, bringing her closer to him, before throwing both of her legs over his shoulders and thrusting into her quickly.

"Fuck Nathan!" Haley screamed as he entered her, she could feel his hard cock pushing into her and she closed her eyes, letting the pleasure over take her as Nathan pumped his way in and out of her at a furious pace, his hands moving to her ass as Haley rocked her hips in time with his thrusts.

Nathan was so turned on, he knew he wasn't going to last long, so he concentrated his actions on making sure that he hit Haley in all the right places, bringing one hand around to her front to start rubbing her clit, hoping that this would speed up her orgasm, which judging by the increased rate of her breathing, seemed to be working.

Haley could feel her orgasm building, and knew that she had to release it soon, the pressure was beginning to become too much. She cried out Nathan's name as she felt the first wave shake through her body, allowing her body to release the rest as she shuddered her way through it, moaning breathlessly when she felt Nathan spill his load deep inside of her.

Nathan rested inside of her, waiting for his breathing to slow down before he moved out of her, resting her body back on the bed, leaning over her to kiss her deeply before pulling out and rolling onto the bed next to her.

Haley rolled over and rested her head on his chest, smiling at herself at how amazing that had been, and it had been just sex, she told herself triumphantly, ignoring any signs from her head or her heart that she was wrong.

Nathan kissed the top of her head and wrapped his arm around her, when he remembered the present he had bought for her that was still sitting in his suit jacket. He jumped out of bed and walked around the suite trying to find his jacket.

"Where are you going?" Haley asked as she sat up in bed, watching as he walked out of the bedroom.

Nathan spotted his jacket on the floor and picked it up, walking back into the bedroom, smiling at Haley who was sitting up on the bed, still completely naked, still looking so beautiful. "Come here." He said as he stood away from the bed so she had room to stand.

"What for?" Haley asked as she crawled off the bed and stood in front of Nathan, confused as to why he had bought his suit jacket in here, was he planning on going somewhere or something?

"I have something for you." Nathan said as he reached into his inside pocket and pulled out the long, black box and handed it to Haley, placing it in her hands, smiling as he did so, he couldn't wait to see what she thought of it.

Haley looked down at the object Nathan had placed in her hands and took a deep breath. Why was he doing this? "What is this?" Haley asked.

"Just something I picked out for you. Open it." Nathan said, waiting eagerly for Haley to look inside.

Haley handed it back to him. "I can't accept this Nathan." She said, not looking him in the eye.

"Why not Hales?" Nathan asked, it was only a gift, if she didn't like jewellery then she could swap it for something else.

Haley sighed. "Nathan what is this?" She asked, gesturing between them both. "Because all I can offer you is sex. I have a boyfriend!"

Nathan smiled as he leaned it and kissed her cheek. "Baby, somehow I think even you know that this is more than sex."

"But it can't be Nathan, as I just said, I have a boyfriend." Haley repeated, she was desperately trying to make him see, make him understand, make him listen, but he continued kissing her cheek, moving down towards her neck.

"I know you do." He mumbled against her skin. "And I also know that he can't make you as turned on as I can, can he Hales?" Nathan said as he sucked onto that patch of skin on her neck that he knew got her all worked up. He heard Haley whimper as he continued his ministrations. "He can't make you scream out his name like I can, can he Hales?" Nathan mumbled again against her neck.

Haley sighed and closed her eyes. "No." She moaned before she opened her eyes the second Nathan pulled away from her neck, and watched as he looked intently into her eyes.

"Hales, this can be whatever you want or need it to be, but don't lie to yourself." He said as he opened up the box he had just given her, revealing a sparkling platinum diamond bracelet. "If you don't like it you can change it for whatever you want." Nathan said with a smile as he watched her eyes take in the gift.

Haley could feel the inner conflict start again, and she knew that she was lying to herself if she thought that what was going on between her and Nathan was just sex, but she had needed to hear it from him, it was funny how hearing it from him sat so much better with her than when Peyton had said it, he made everything seem like it was okay. She smiled back at him, and then looked back down at the bracelet. "It's perfect." She said as she leaned up on her tip toes and kissed him deeply.

AN – Okay guys! There you have it! As I said, the reveal chapter is coming up soon! Let me know what you thought of that chapter by dropping me a review! And Happy Valentines Day for tomorrow!